Personality development

2. Establish Identity
 Aims
 Goals
 Anticipated career
Curious
 Life style
Energetic
 Role in the community
Achieving
Unmindful
It can’t happen to me
Syndrome (personal fable)

3. What is Personality
• Personality is the sum total of all physical, mental
and emotional attitudes, values, interests and
motivational factors.
• Personality is the core potential that determines
one's success in life and career

4. Emotions
Thoughts
PERSONALITY
Behavior

5. Importance of Personality
development
 Ensure excellence in one’s chosen field
 Contribute to individual and national
development
 An improvement in your personality can
improve your chances for success in any
undertakings

6. Personality development
Is it just developing
 Mere external appearance
 Speech
 Mannerisms
 Behavior in accordance of expectation of a group
It is a struggle to march from
lower mind to higher mind
Is the greatest of all great

7. Personality Development
Express your
 Originality
 Creativity
 Deep thinking
Give up
 Artificiality
 Imitation
 Shallow and
superficial thinking
Believe in innate goodness
Put effort to Manifest it

8. Requirements towards the development
of a fine personality
1.
Clarity of goals and purpose in life
2.
Doing beyond expectation
3.
Learning from failures
4.
Initiatives
5.
Enthusiasm
6.
Character and personality
7.
Self discipline
8.
Positive mental attitude
9.
Managing
10. Sound physical and mental health
11. Team work
12. Hard work
13. Growing in one’s knowledge and skills
14. Desiring pleasure and excitement

9. Positive attitude
 Don’t find fault with others
 I can do instead of I cannot do
 I choose to do instead of I have
to do or I need to do

10. Clarity of goals and purpose in life
Things will happen only if we make them happen
Action
Goal in thought
Starting point
Goal achieved
in reality
Sub goal
Time scale
Record
Review
Goals can be achieved
Systematic, determined, consistent efforts
with self control & accepting set backs without
dejection

11. - in
Doing beyond expectations
any situation, one must try to give away more than is
expected; without expecting rewards in cash or kind. Then the
rewards would come automatically
Attitudes towards failures and mistakes
Upholding the ideal once again even if a person
failed a thousand times
Learn form mistakes and change yourself
See to that mistakes are not repeated
Do not find fault with other for one own mistakes

12. Initiative
- this develops the leadership
qualities
Enthusiasm
 it is energy, excitement which gives
joy in work and life
 it leads to commitment and
overcome feelings of tiredness, lack
of sleep, disappointments and failures

13. Character and personality
- it includes honesty, integrity, sincerity,
truthfulness and commitments
Self discipline
- the major things to discipline are
thoughts, emotions, words,
actions, habits and behaviours

14. Sound physical and mental health
Team work
Hard work – it is not number of hours, but the
output doing right things at the right time.
Desiring pleasure and excitement – many
simple hobbies and being help to others
Growing in one’s knowledge and skills –
books, meetings, personal visits and experiences.

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16. Qualities of Successful Person
Ambition- Need desire and ambition to
succeed in life
Commitment - Success is the result of our
thoughts and decision. Having a good value
system will deeper our commitment.
Responsibility – Responsible people accept
and learn from their mistakes.
Hard work – Excellence is the result of a lot of
hard work.
Character – Character is the sum total of a
person’s values, beliefs and personality.
Persistence – Success implies willingness to
plan and prepare.

17. Tips for improve your attitude at
work situation
1. Develop confidence
2. Have realistic expectations of yourself
3. Determine if “adequate” is good
enough
4. Re assign the work
5. Create system or use a tool
6. Ask for reassignment